Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

The Pennsylvania Prohibition State convention nominated Rev. Silas C. Swallow for Governor. “Pat” Sheedy announces that he has given up gambling and will become a merchant at Buenos Ayres. A mob of 1,000 people in Boston raided meat markets in the Jewish district and after soaking the beef in kerosene set fire to it. Lightning struck the icehouses of the Boston Ice Company at Milton, N. H., burning twelve of them. The loss is $50,000, fully insured. The new Anchor line steamer Columbia arrived at New York, after a good maiden voyage from Glasgow and Moville. It is the largest vessel yet built for the Anchor line. At La Salle, near Niagara Falls, a tablet was dedicated to Cavelier de la Salle in commemoration of the building of the first vessel ever navigated by white men on the great lakes. A temporary sidewalk In New York gave way during the Rochninbeau parade and precipitated 200 persons into an excavation, killing one and injuring eightyseven, some of them fatally. Tommy Noonan died in a Boston hospital from the effects of a blow delivered by Eddie Dixon of Chicago in a boxing match at the Lenox Athletic Club. Concussion of the brain was the immediate cause of death. John L. Semple, the Camden lawyer who has been on trial for a week in the United States District Court in Philadelphia for alleged complicity in the manufacture of S2O silver certificates, was found not guilty. Samuel Salter, Joseph D. Rodgers, Clarence Meeser, Harry McCabe and James T. Sheehan, indicted for ballotbox stuffing, in connection with the election Nov. 7, 1899, were found guiltless by a jury in Philadelphia. Capt. George Cowie, a well-known naval officer who served under Admiral Farragut in the Civil War and was chief engineer of the battleship Indiana in the war with Spain, has been killed at Rahway, N. J., by an express train. Employes of the Union Bug and Paper Company at Ballston, N. Y., who are members of the Laborers’ Protective Union, went on strike for an increase in wages from $1.25 to $1.50, for a ten-hour day nnd for 15 cents an hour overtime. Prof. Benton E. James, for many years principal of the Montrose, Pa., high school, committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree in the outskirts of the borough. Temporary insanity caused by ill health is supposed to have been the cause. Joseph Pearson, a jockey, was shot and hilled by bis Wife, Louise, at the latter’s home in Esplcn Borough, Pittsburg. He was trying to brain her with a hatchet when the woman fired at his head and Pearson fell a corpse at the feet of his wife, his son and n daughter. Since the declaration of the strike in the anthracite coal region there has been a continuous exodus of mine workers from the Schuylkill district of Pennsylvania. Many of the men have taken their families with them, their intention being to live permanently In other fields. George T. Bruns, an examiner of accounts for the Equitable Life Assurance Company, shot his wife and killed himself at their home in Brooklyn. N. Y. Edna Dashiell. sister of Mrs. Bruns, who had spent the evening with the couple, says that Bruns was unreasonably jealous. The so-called "blue law,” which prohibited the sale of ice cream, soda water and confectionery on Sunday by druggists nnd common victualers of Massachusetts was wiped off the statute book by a repealing measure, which Gov. Crane signed ns soon as it was sent to him by the Senate. At Ridgeway, Pa., during a severe rain wind storm John Robinson's circus tents were blown down upon a large audience. Immediately after the collapse of the tents the canvas caught fire from gasoline lights. Nearly everybody in the tent was bruised more or less seriously. Fortunately nobody was killed. One of the worst wrecks in the history of the West Penn Railroad occurred at a point called Porter's Curve, Pa. Two men were killed and one injured. The engine was wrecked nnd four freight cars loaded with valuable freight, together with a cabin car, were a total wreck. The track was torn up tor a distance of several hundred yards. Two men were killed and many inen and women injured in a trolley wreck a few miles beyond Easton, Pa. An Easton and Nazareth car left the former city shortly before midnight, carrying eightynine passengers. On a steep hill in Palmer township the brakes refused to work nnd the car ran nway, descending the incline at terrific speed. At the foot of the hill there is a sharp curve. Here the car jumped the truck and fell ou its side. College hnzing nnd the strong rivalry between classes of the University of Vermont caused the death of Nelson Pease Bond, a freshman, in Lake Champlain. Caught alone nnd act upon by two sophomores, whom he suspected of a design to kidnnp him in order to prevent him from being present nt a class function, ho ran to the lake, nnd. his pursuers any, jumped in. So far ns known there was no other witness of the drowning. Both declare that they sought to save him. bur could not, ns he sank before they could reach him with a Itoat.